Conceptual Modeling-An Epistemological Foundation

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 4232-4242

  Niehaves, Björn ^a   Dreiling, Alexander ^b   Ribbert, Michael ^a   Holten, Roland ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conceptual Modeling; Epistemology; Information Requirements Engineering; Language Communities

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; INFORMATION USE; MODELING LANGUAGES;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; EPISTEMOLOGICAL FOUNDATION; EPISTEMOLOGY; INFORMATION INFORMATION; INFORMATION REQUIREMENT; INFORMATION REQUIREMENT ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SUPPLIES; INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE COMMUNITY; REQUIREMENT ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870209418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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